LOS ANGELES – November 02, 2026 -- Raising the Community Reinvestment Act small-bank threshold to $10 billion in assets would leave more than 2.6 million additional people in census tracts where no bank is evaluated for community development, according to a new interactive map from NAAHL and FairPlay AI.

PHOENIX – November 02, 2026 -- Participating agencies in the 2026 National Coordinated Enforcement Effort reported more than 3,900 jobsite and residential visits nationwide, according to the National Association of State Contractors Licensing Agencies (NASCLA).

MOUNTAIN VIEW – November 02, 2026 -- Google, Plume, TrendAI, Lumen, HUMAN Security, Synthient and Japan's National Police Agency have taken down X.CPE, a botnet hidden in more than 1.3 million TV set-top boxes across more than 200 countries. Google assesses that disrupting the botnet's command-and-control domains will also cut off access to at least 10 million additional compromised devices.

Essen – November 02, 2026 -- Westnetz, the grid operator of Westenergie, plans to renew, expand or newly build more than 21,000 kilometers of power lines by 2030 under its Grid Expansion Plan 2026. The plan also covers measures at about 250 substations and more than 30,000 local grid stations.

Berlin – November 02, 2026 -- Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) will examine legal action if RWE concludes a planned LNG supply contract with ADNOC that would include fracking gas from Argentina's Vaca Muerta formation.

Osnabrück – October 31, 2026 -- The share of births with one-to-one midwife care during the key phase of labor has doubled from one in four to one in two since Germany's nationwide midwife services contract took effect, according to the statutory health insurers' association GKV-Spitzenverband.

Munich – October 31, 2026 -- The German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB) is considering returning its hosting rights for next year's World Championship if the financial risk becomes unmanageable, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cleared Russian national teams to return to international ice hockey for the 2026/27 season. The ruling overturned an earlier IIHF Council decision to keep Russia out.

HONG KONG – October 31, 2026 -- The Hong Kong SAR government will launch the first phase of a centralized database of building maintenance projects and professionals in May or June next year, and will set up a public body from January to help homeowners oversee repair and renovation works.

Authorities also aim to amend several ordinances by April to strengthen crackdowns on bid-rigging and other anti-competition conduct.

Global – October 31, 2026 -- CIQ is preparing the ML-KEM and ML-DSA post-quantum algorithm implementations in Network Security Services (NSS) for FIPS 140-3 validation. Distinguished Engineer Jeremy Allison, a Samba co-creator, leads the effort, which also covers Common Criteria evaluation for Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro (RLC Pro) and other CIQ products.

Farnborough – October 31, 2026 -- Brazil's National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) has published proposed noise certification criteria for Eve Air Mobility's Eve 100 eVTOL aircraft, with public consultation open until August 8. Eve (NYSE: EVEX) calls the publication a key milestone toward type certification and toward an environmental certification framework for eVTOLs.